Board Game Arena

There's an option to log every card played - which should really be always on for turn-based games, and (mostly) off for real-time games. Maybe there's a way to force it to always be on for turn-based? Anyway, until that happens, something to remember when setting up / accepting turn-based tables. D...

A bug has now been opened for this at https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=45477. As I said there, I don't think "Bids/Tricks" would be a good idea because, to me, "Bids" means the number of bids, i.e. the number of players who have placed their bid, not the total number of tricks t...

The original label says "Tricks bid: N / M" which I find clear enough. A user put in a request to change it to "Tricks / Bid", which is incorrect, but somehow got approved by an admin, so I can't fix it now. I've submitted a request to restore the original.

One thing I did during the development of a Hungarian game was hijack the _ function locally by calling this in setup: // HACK to force translation to Hungarian. REMOVE BEFORE PUBLISHING hackTranslation__MAGIC: function() { window.HACK__old_translation_function = window._; window._ = function(messag...

It's probably something to do with how log entries are stored in the DB. The same thing happens in a lot of games. Look at a Hanabi replay log - things look pretty odd there, too. Ideally this should be fixed site-wide, but as it is just a minor inconvenience in most games (if that) I wouldn't hold ...

Looks like plain cheating to me, but good luck proving it...

I give red thumbs to serial quitters, although I do agree to abandon myself sometimes (mostly if an honest mistake occurred). My Elo happens to be around 1070 right now but that's because I've played a lot of bright 600s recently (and I only play 2p). More typically it tends to hover in the 930-990 ...

The best code to learn from usually has few comments. Comments are not like Schindler's List. They are not "pure good". Indeed, comments are, at best, a necessary evil. If our programming languages were expressive enough, or if we had the talent to subtly wield those languages to express o...

Sorry for the necromancy, but is there a definitive answer to what exactly could be used in case something like this was needed? Specifically, is EvTimer supported, or should I google further? :) (Out of the games currently available for development, Escape is one example where something like this w...

I still feel deep frustration that the site is actively hiding the deal and then denying that they are hiding it, as if they think we are all morons... until that stops I won't fully be on board. I agree that not having this news on the front page, even if just as a very short update that essential...